Quiz Answers

1. 10

2. Declaration of Independence

3. In the order of ratification, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Viriginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island. March 4, 1789-government under the Constitution began. The signers were: Delaware

4. Benjamin Franklin was never the president but as you can see he was a signer of the Constitution.

5. 27 amendments

6. It is a law limiting pay raises for Congress. It was ratified May 5, 1992.

7. James Madison‘s Virginia Plan called for a bicameral Congress: the lower house would be “of the people,” elected directly by the people of the United States and representing public opinion, and a more deliberative upper house that would represent the individual states, and would be less susceptible to variations of mass sentiment, would be elected by the lower house.

8. Judicial, Legislative, Executive. The president is part of the executive branch.

9. It didn’t receive enough votes to be ratified in the federal Constitution. Alice Paul was the author.